More Soldier*. It is conceded that more men are need ed to finish the business ot putting down the rebellion. The only question is, how ■hall they be raised ? The Government adheres to the drafting system as the best, and is asking Congress to make it more effective bv repealing the commutation clause. Congress, representing the peo ple whose war this is, and who intend to fight it through, have thus far hesitated to do away with the commutation, there by indicating a want of faith in the draft as the means for keeping the armies up. Ilerein we think th» immediate represen tatives of the people are wiser than the other branch of the Government; but un der the presure it is doubtful whether this wisdom will continue to the cud. ID our judgment, the mistake which tbe Government make?, is in not appreci ating the rfillingnesss of the country to furnish soldiers to the number required. The only unwillingness existing that we know of, is to bo drafted. It is a system that effectually closes every avenue to the popnlar heart, and extinguishes the feel ing without which the Government will be powerless. It is time the Government knew this pregnant fact. Take a given number of citizens, unanimous in their opposition to the draft; the Government has but to popularize its call and moans, to put two-thirds of them in the ranks.— Such is the fact here, and we believe it to be so elsewhere. We think we can as sure the President, the Secretary of War. and Congress, that if two hundred thou sand or five hundred thousand men are wanted to finish the business, they have but to put that fact hffore the country, in tbe place of the hated, chillingdraft, make ail appeal straight to the popular heart, and the mon can be obtained as rapidly as they can be an tied. It is no argument to say that they will be now mon. They will be no ncwerthan you will get under the draft—nn substi tutes with but the single motive of deser tion—but earuest men whose hearts arc in the right place. Besides, there arc no new men now in the sense of the term two years ago. The people have been educa ted and disciplined within that time by constant contemplation and greater or less familiarity with actual warfare. Recent experience has disposed of that pica. Whatever the Government does, if it expects success, it must have the popular heart iu its favor. Without this you can not get tho men—even if you could, they would not avail you. Therefore, the only thing to be done is to get in symathy with tho peoplo and then act together.— Certain we are, the repeal of the commu tation clause will not be a step in that di rection. It is evident that whatever the plau is. the capital of thecountry must in theend boar a large shareof the burden. Inthis view of the case, tho association of gen tlemen of wealth—most of them exempt from military duty—was formed in New York, to procure men and place them in the ranks at once. To facilitate efforts of this kind, tho following circular has been issued by the Provost Marshal General: WAR DEPARTMENT. 1 Tito. MAR. GENERAL'S OFFICE, - WASHINGTON, D. C., June 26. ) Persons uot fit for military duty and not liable to draft from age or other causes, have expressed a desire tc he personally represented in the army. 11l addition to the contributions tliey have made in the way of bounties, they propose to raise at their own expense and present for enlist ment recruits to present them in the ser vice. Such practical patriotism is wor thy of special commendation and encour agement. Provost-marshals affd all other officers acting under this bureau, are or dered to furhish all the facilities in their power to enlist and muster promptly ac ceptable representative recruits, presented in accordance with the design herein set forth. The name of the person whom the recruit represents will be noted on the en listment and dcscrsptivc rolls of the re cruit, and will be carried forward from these papers to the other official records which form this military history. Suita bly prepared certificates of this personal representation in the service will be for warded to this- office to be filled out and issued by the provost-marshals to tho per sons who putin representative recrusts. JAMKS 15. FRY. Provost.Marshal General We understand that some of our lead ing citizons, manufacturers aud capital ists, are considering the question of or ganizingaccording to the New York plan now legally provided for. By this means the wants of the Government would be provided for, and the rigors of the draft materially mitigated—perhaps the ex treme sort wholly avoided. We feel con fident that the quota of Allegheny coun ty can be tilled in this way; and that the plan will prove to bo uot only effec tive, but popular.— Pitts. Com. AN EXAMI'LI;. —In oue respect the South has set us an example. Through out the South, North Caroliua excepted, there have been no political parties since the war began. The legislation of the rebel Congress has related almost exclu sively to the raising and equipping of ar mios and fleets, and providing sinews of war. Democrat and Whig have become obsolete words in the Southern vocabula ry. The predominating and absorbing is sue is, shall Confederate independence be maintained and the American Union con tinue broken. We wish our politicians had allowed that to be the test and only important question with us, also—that they had «uuk partisanism as the rebels have done, and narrowed the contest to one of simply national existence. But they have not done so — Pitt*. Com. tgt* The Wheeling Sanitary Fair has been opened under auspicious circUm- Btanoos Governor Boremau delivered the address. He concludes as follows: Let us look at the position. How shall we act 7 Shall we think of compromise or a withdrawal of tho army ? Shall we after so muchlossof lifcand money .throw down our arms aud recognize the" rebels. No. God forbid it! The rebels aro ar rayed against us with powerful armies, but we must put them down. We must not give up. We have the men and the mon ey, and unborn generations call for to oling to and proteot the Government and regard the right* of the people. Jn the Rear of Richmond. The authenticated reports of our cavalry achievements, taken in con nection "with the ascertained results of Hunter's movements, give to the grand campaign against Richmond a most hopeful' aspect. The most certain way to besiege a city or fortress is to isolate it by cutting off its communica tions. This done, the period of de fence will be no longer than the sup plies on hand will last. This is the principle on which Grant is now con ducting the campaign against Rich mond. The expedition under Wil son and Kautz, having for its object the destruction of the Danville out let, having been successful, the roads running from Kichrnond can no lon ger be depended on as reliable means by which Lee can obtain supplies He mnj' <l° something towards repair ing some of them, but the same force that did the mischief once can and probably w ill do it again. To guard these roads, and especially the Dan ville road, at all the points liable to be struck, will necessitate a diver sion of a force which Lee cannot spare with safety. Thus ho is beginning to feel the weight of the blows which Grant has fought himself into a pos sition to deal. By keeping up his flank movement, he lias kept Lee in Richmond and placed himself in a possition to cut his communications. The rebel general, unless he can spare men enough to hold securely his communications and Richmond at the same time, or is provided with supplies that make him independent of his communications,, will be com pelled either to retreat or assume the offensive. To fight Lee out of his entrenchments has been Grant,s con stant wish. The rebel General has adroitly avoided a fight only when he could avail himself of his works. It is an ascertained fact, that the campaign has greatly reduced Lee's force: Grant's army, on the other hand, is larger now than at any pre vious moment. He is, moreover, in his intrenchments, where Lee, even if he were stronger than he is, would hardlv venture to attack him. To the unprofessioual eye the com parative advantages an<l disadvanta ges of the situation are apparent. They show how worse than foolish it is to indulge in doubts and become impatient, because entire success does not not attend every minor un dertaking. What may seem days of inactivity will probably prove to be days of acivity leading to important results. This-has proved to be the case during the last week. What has been accomplished during that time has brought the siege close to'the gates of Richmond, and in a form that can bo least withstood. The means employed are not less certain than a shower of shot and shell rained continually on the doomed city.— Pitts. Com. Provident rtncoln's LeUcr of Acceptance EXECUTIVE MANSION, WASHINGTON, June 27, 1804. j Hon- William Dan'son and others, a Committee of the National Union Convention : GENTLEMEN: —Your letter of the 14th instant formally notifying mc that I had been nominated by the Convention you represent for the Presidency of the United States for four years from the 4th of March next, has been received. The nomination is gratefully accep ted, and the resolutions of the Con vetion, called the platform, are heart ily approved. While the resolution in regard to the supplantingofrepub lican governments upon the Western Continent is fully concurred in. there might be a misunderstanding were I not to say that the position of the Government in relation to the ac tion of France in Mexico as assumed through the State Department and indorsed by the Convention, among the measures and acts of the Execu tive, will be faithfully maintained so long as the state of facts shall leave that position pertinent and applica ble. I am especially gratified that the soldiers and seamen were not forgot ten by the Convention, as th'ey for ever must and will be remembered by the grateful country for whose sal vation they devote their lives. Thanking you for the kind and complimentary terms in which you communicated the nomination and other proceedings of the Convention, I subscribe myself your obedient ser vant. ABRAHAM LINCOLN. Jfcaf"* Gen. Grant, in opposition to the views of Admiral Leo, ordered the chaa nel of the James to be obstructed, thus makiug sure his base was protected against raids by rebel iron-elads. By the way, we see that the correspondent of the Jierald calls Admiral Leo "an old sea dog." Let the writer consult the Naval Register, and he will find that the Adjni ral's sea life has not been a protracted one, aud mostly in sight of laud. NATIONAL INCO.M£. —The national in come under the new tax bill, it is estima ted will be at least three hundred mil lions. This is independent of the reve uuo under the tariff. Secretary Chase will, it is said, ask Congress to pass a sup plementary bill, to raise one hundred mil lions more, from articles of luxurv. The Secretary has through views, anil holds that it is in taxation only that the nation will find the true policy. Tho transportation of the Army of the Potomac would make a line of wagonssixty-two and a half miles in length according to Geu. Meade. sht (Eitism. THOMAS ROBINSON, I CYRUS E. ANDERSON, J*- 0110 ™- JI. W. NPEAR, Publisher. BUTLER PA. WEDJfESDAV - JILY 6, 1804. Mr " Liberty and Union, Now and Forever, One end inseparable.' - —O. Webster. FOB PRESIDENT IX 1864 : ABRAHAM LIXCOLX. of Illinois. FOR VI£E PRESIDENT: AXDBEW JOHXSTOX. of Tennessee. Presidential Eleclorn. SENATORIAL. Morton M'Mirhael, Philadelphia. Thomas 11. Cunningham, Beaver county. RE RESEttTATIVE. 1 Robert P. King, 113 Ellas W. Hall, 2 Goo. Morrison Coatea, ( 14 Charles H. Shrlner, 3 Henry Bumm. ilo John Wister, 4 William 11. Kern, 116 David M'Conauehy, 5 Barton H. Jenks, 17 David W. Wood, 6 Charles M.Runk, 19 Isaac Benson, 7 Robert Parkor, 10 ,'ohn P.tton, 8 Aaron Mull, 20 Samuel It. Dick, 9 John A. Hiestand, 121 Everard Bieror, 10 IttcardH. Coryell, ,22 John P Penney, 11 F-dsvard Holliday, |23 Kbonezor M .lnnkln, 12 ("hallos F. Kccd, 124 Jelin W. Bianchard. LOCAL TICKET. CONGRESS, THOMAS WILLIAMS. ASSEMBLY, WM. II AS LETT. JOHN' 11. NEGLEY. of Butler County. SAMUEL M'KINLEY, of Lairrrnce County. , COMMISSIONER. A.C.CHRISTY. AUDITOR. LEANDER WISE. Amendment to the Constitution, Granting thr NehlirraUlght to Tote. KI.KCTION ON TUESDAY, AUGUST 2, 1804. E<lg:ir Cowan. In speaking of the final vote on repeal of the Fugitive Slave Law, in the Se nate, the Germantoicn Telegraph remarks: " It will be seen that Cowan of this State, voted in the negative, with Davis and Powell, of Kentucky, and Saulsbury and lliddle of Delaware." Poor Cowan, what a record he has made during the presence of this great crisis ! Dallas once betrayed the interests of Pennsylvania, and they went down un der his treachery,—happy it is that no one man can work such mischief now.— All that poor Cowan can do, is to disgrace I himself and shame his friends. Thank I God, there is Loyalty enough left to save ! tbe nation. Tlio Elrrlion Again. In our paper this week will bo found the Sheriffs Proclamation for the special election to be held on Tuesday, the 2d day of August. We trust that all will bear this election in mind. Let no one have to look for an excuse afterwards for uot attending this election, Reflect how short the iime is, just three weeks from next Tuesday! Speak to your neighbors about it; aud make arrangements for hav ing a full vote polled iu favor of extend ing the right of suffrage to the soldier, llouor and justice both demand this at our hands. CREDITS UNDER THE DRAFT. —We learn from the Harrisburg Telegraph that the Secretary of War a fortnight since addressed a brief inquiry to the Governor of Pennsylvania, for information in rela tion to the return made to the Adjutant General's office of the State, on the sub , ject of credits on the draft. The matter being referred to Adjutant General Rus sell, he at once proceeded to gather and arrange the returns necessary lor reply.— This reply embraces an account of the re enlistments in the veteran regiments of Pennsylvania infantry, cavalry and artil lery, as such enlistments were credited to the different sub-districts throughout the Commonwealth. The object to be estab lished by this information is to compare the returns made to the State authority with those of the War Department, in order that tho credits may be correctly ar ranged, and that all possible attempts at fraud or misrepresentation circumvented and defeated. The document prepared in the Adju tant General's office reflects the greatest credit on the energy and promptitude of Adjutdnt General Russell, and the cleri cal force of his department,. It occupies a half ream of closely written foolscap pa- i per, and embraces information connected with the military organization of the State ! for the past three years. This document j for its extent, importance and intricacy of j detail, is the*most voluminous that ever \ issued from the same department in the ! shape of a correspondence. UST Society is a strong solution of books. It draws the virtue out of what is beet worth reading, as hot water draws the strength out of- tea-leaves. COMMUNICATIONS. For tho Citizen. Prisoners at Richmond. , MESSKS EDITORS: —Tho following ex tract of a letter from my brother in West Virginia, whose son, Almandus Young, has been in Richmond as a prisoner, con firms the many reports of cruelties in flicted there. Edwin Young and Asa Young, mentioned in the letter, are neph ews of mine and my brother who writes. Several of the prisoners taken at the same timc.have been furloughed, and returned home after enduring -all that human na ture could bear, and all that barbarity could inflict. "Those who have got home are in a very feeble state of health. The extent of suffering that the poor prisoners have endured, is not, and cannot bo generally known by the community at large. Al mandus was sick aud in the hospital a large portion of the time last fall, and until the last of January, when lie was sent back to Castle Thunder, but was yet quite fee ble. He then gained some strength and was soon sent with the other prisoners, to Belle Island, in that cold weather in the month of February, and was there seven teen days, without shelter or fire, and very thinly clad, with nothing to cat but a very small piece of unsifted, unsaltcd, half-baked, hard, cold and old corn bread, daily, and occasionally a half pint of broth from old rice, filled with white worms one inch or one and a half inch long; or of old peas or rather pea-shells filled with bugs, in fact so full that the bugs were drank with the broth, or half of the broth turned out to get rid of the swiming bugs; and the remainder drank. The prisoners sank rapidly under this treatment. . They then hftd shelters pro vided, and were allowed a little fire.— Edwin Young, happened to he assigned to a tent occupied by prisoners from our army, and drew a share of provisions sent over by some benevolent society, and was thus rendered more comfortable. His health was much better than Asa's, and Asa was stouter than Almandus. We know certainly that nineteen of tho Militia had died previous to the twen tieth of April, and we fear that more than that number have died since. They all out of money. There was a large amount of money sent from here to Rich mond for them, of which they never re ceived but about one tenth." From the above extract, it would seem that of the sixty persons captured by the guerrillas, and taken to Richmond, about two thirds were so starved and maltreated that they died, and tho rest "arc in a very feeble state of health." These men's only military offence was, that they dril led as militia every Saturday, in their own neighborhood, on French Creek, West Virginia. They wore mostly young mar ried men. The guerillas captured them while drilling, and hurried them to Rich mond. LOYAL YOUNG. The following is a copy of a let ter written by Lt. Daniel Boggs, Com Co. G, 4th Pa. Cav., to his brother Thos W. Boggs, Esq., of Evansburg. CAMP OF 4TII PENXA. CAVALRY, on James riyer six miles below Harrison's Landing, Juno 27, 1864. DEAR BROTHER : —Through the Prov idence of God, I am privileged to write you a few Hues on this, the only remain ing piece of paper I have, and in the first place I will have to tell you of the death ■ of your townsman, Hugh E'Cormick, who was killed on Friday, the 24th instant, at | St. Mary's Church. Our division was ■ sent to guard the road while, the wagon train was passiug from While House to this place. We had a train of eight miles to bring through. While we were some six or eight miles separated from the other division, we were i attacked by five times our number and the result was that the 2d division (General Gregg's) were badly whipped for the first time; it is a sight I don't wish often to see. The leading cause of defeat, I sup pose, was that Gen. Gregg's dispatches to Gen. Sheridan, were captured by the en eijiy; exposing both our position and our strength, giving the enemy all the knowl edge they required to make a successful attack suddenly upon our exposed lines; the consequence was, -they did it by ad vancing suddenly upon our centre, where the 4th Pa. Cavalry wero stationed, as well as both right and left flanks occupi ed by other regiments of our brigade. Our company lost four,Corp M'Nama ra and private M'Cormick, killed; pri vates William Phelps and John Caldwell of Allegheny city, missing. On the 11th inst. at Travillion Station, Va. Central R. It., we lost of our compa ny, Jacob Wolford, killed ; Hugh Hamil ton, Derigan and Boguc, wounded. I would not do justice to tho men of your county who came to our company, if I did not say thoy were all that was nec essary for soldiers to be. They came to us in the midst of a vigorous campaign; on the day they came we were in range of the enemies guns, and on each occasion since that time, they have done their du ty bravely; at Travillion .Station we were behind a rail fence. We were ordered when, the bugle would sound, to tear down the fence and charge a .concealed enemy over an open field; the charge was made in frout of a galling fire, but it was done successfully. We drove the rebs first from the buildings and from there to the H.B. Iwill notwrite anymore at present. Your Brothor, DANIEL C. BOOGS, Lt Com. Co. G, 4tli Pa. Cav. CITY POINT, VA., J una 19, 1884. Editors of Butler Payers : Please announce the death of private David Studebaker, of Co. E, 100 Regt., Pa. Vet. Vols., who fell overboard aud was drowned in the Pamunky river, five miles below the White House Landing, on the morning of the 15th of June. He was not with his company, but was detail ed as a uurse at 9th Corps Hospital, and was with the Hospital moving to the new base of operations, at the time of the ac cident. He was loved by all his com rades, and when the sad news reaches them, they will mourn the loss of a true soldier, and dear companion, and will sym pathize with those who have lost a noble son, and a loving brother. The • deceased was 30 years of age, a farmer previous to joiuing the army, which was at the commencement of the war, and a resident of \\ orth township, Butler county, Pa. lie had re-enlisted last December. Respectfully, J. C. STEVENSON, Co. Ej 100 Reg. I'. V. V. P. S.—Lieut. Col. W. W. Dawson, Sergt. David Book, and Private David Brackcnridge, of the 100 Pa." Regt., have just arrived from tho front, wounded ; Col. Dawson, severely; Brackcnridge. above left eye. J. c. s. Tlie War Must Stop, Democratic sentiment is moulding to this form, nnd will soon be openly pro claimed. The next step will be the adop- i tion of the plan dictated by the Rich mond Examiner to procure tho defeat of Grant's armies, the depreciation of our currency, and the paralyzing of ail our eftbrts. This is a plain sstatenieut. of the case as it now stands, and is supported by the course of the leading Democratic journals of the country. Every measure of the Administration is bitterly denoun ced ; the raising of troops under every | call is openly discouraged upon tho plea that the war is being carried on for no other purpose than the freeing of the negroes; th<j rebellion is sympathized traitors are popularized because of tlim treason, and the people are appealed to to rise in opposition to tho Government in case it attempts tho punishment of trai-' tors. The latest evidence upon this sub ject is furnished by the proceedings of the recent Kentucky State Convention. The resolutions recommend "an immedi ate armistice, v and a national convention for tho adjustment of our difficulties."— The intention of this can only be to throw our military operations into confusion witlr a view to advancing the interests of the rebellion. The rebels have time and again indignantly refused to enter into any con vention with us, except on the basis of a final separation, declaring that if a blank shoot of paper were tendered them upon which to write their own terms, they would spurn it. Over and over again have Northern peace demagogues been snubbed by their "erring brethren," but to no purpose—they will not be taught by experience. The Kentucky resolutions further say: "The party in power have deluded the people into the granting of men and mon ey to their unrestricted control, for the pretended purpose of preserving the Gov ernment, which they have used, and are still using, for the base end of overthrow ing State institutions, and advancing mere party interest, and establishing them selves in permanent and despotic power." Here we have an appeal to the people to grant neither men nor money to the government to aid in suppressing tho re bellion. If this appeal is listened to and obeyed, the war must inevitably stop—the very purpose that the Democrats have in view. With this end gained what fol i lows will be dictated by the rebels and their Democratic allies It is true that Democrats some times say that they desire the suppression of tho reoellion ; but this is merely lip service. At the same time they denounce every measure, discourage every ffort of the Administration, and openly declar their their sympathy with those of the leaders whom they know to be in collusion J with the rebels. Gov. Bramlette. of Ken- I tucky, in a letter of thanks to G?>v. Mor j ton, of Indiana, for assistance rendered I during Morgan's recent raid says: "The appearance of Vallandighain iu Ohio sim ultaneously with Morgan's raid into Ken tucky, fully confirms the matter made known to mo through Gen. Lindscy, by you." It is impossible for any loyal man to have a particle of sympathy with Val landigham. The most observable feature ot the Democratic policy is the failure to suggest measures more just, feasible and efficient for the suppression of the rebellion, than those of Mr. I incoln's which they so bit terly denounce. Were they really sincere in their professed desire to see the des truction of treason and the dispersion of its hosts, they would hesitate in the de nunciation of Mr. Lincoln unless they were ablo to indicate what course it would > be better for him to adopt. The rebel lion is a positive fact, and it can only be conquered by positive, determined means —negatives cannot accomplish the pur pose. Whatever may be said of Mr. Lin coln's measures, the fact that they arc the j best the necessities of the war have sug gested is clearly vindicated, lt is easy to state a denial, but very difficult at times j to support it. A man in a storm at sea j will not cast away his plank unless he has j a surer and safer means of succor within j reach. But Democrats, like Sampson, j desire to throw down the pillars which j support the structure, that perfect, ruin may follow.— Pills. Com. ONE TIIINO CLEAR —ft is clear that as Gen. Grant is sustained by tho Gov ernment and the people, eo will the future be. There is not ground for a single doubt that if he is backed up he will de- ; feat the rebels, and defeat now they con- j fess would bo fatal. The blows that he j has been dealing for tho last six weeks j kept up, will inevitably beat tho breach | out of tho rebellion. To end tho war at 1 the earliest moment, let ue sustain Grant, ' Tbc Fugitive Slave Law. The Souate 011 Thursday passed tho act repealing the Fugitive Slave laws of IT','3 and 1850, by a vote of 22 to 12. Wc give here tho Yeas and Nays: YEAS —Messrs. Anthony, Rrown, ('hand ler. Clark, Couness, Dixon, Foot, Grimes, Ilale, Harlan, Harris. Hicks. Howard, Howe, Lane (Ind.), Lane (Kansas), Mor gan, Morrill, Pomeroy, Ramsey, Sherman, Sprague, Sumner, Ten Eyck, Trumbull, Wade and Wilson. NAYS —Messrs. Buckalciv, Carlile, Cowan, Davis, Hendricks, Johnson. M'- Dougal, Powell, Riddle, Saulsbury, \ an Wintle and Willey. It sounds oddly in the year 1864 to read the names of two Pennsylvania Sen ators in the list of twelve nays on tho <[uestion of repealing the Fugitive Slave law; but such is tho humiliation of our great Commonwealth to-day, and such has almost ever been her fate. Pennsylvania has iurnished nearly two hundred thous and men to defend our sacred Nationality against tne assaults of Treason and Slavery, and full twenty-five thousand of thatnum bertill untimely and often nameless grave", —heroic sacrifices to the crowning crime of human bondage and its endless train of evils; add when an enlightened prog ress, dictated alike by humanity and Na tional necessity, seeks to bljit from our statue books the blistering evidence of our National abasement to Slavery. Pennsyl vania records a solid vote against it in the first legislative tribunal of the land. Fortunately the bill has passed and is now a law, despite the shame of our State. With Senator Buckalew we have noth ing to do. lie has disappointed 110 one— has sacrificed no convictions; violated no pledges; falsified no record, Hcwascho j sed by a legislature in sympathy with his j views, and he has simply been consistent iin error. But Senator Cowan has b*en I faithless to the sentiment that culled him | to responsible trust, and shamefully vio -1 lated his own voluntary record. In 1860, ! when the writer hereof was Chairmrn of tho State Committee, he was compelled to recall several appointments made for this same Edgar Cowan because of the radical abolition principles he advocated. His only theme seemed to be tho destruction of Slavery, and the blotting out of the last vestago of its power. 111 short be was radically in advance of tho times—then | holding and advocating views so violent I that, in tho absence of rebellion, they j could not be justified either in law or j comity. Before his election the formal j secession of several States was a matter | of history, and Slavery was about tore- I sort causelessly and wickedly to the terri ble arbitrament»of the sword. In such a I crisis, the supposed fidelity of Mr. Cow j an to the government and his known hos ! tility to the fruitful parent of our Nation jul discord, made him acceptable to the ! faithful men of the legislature, and lie S was clothed with the highest legislative j trust. Others might falter before the sc | ductions of power, or the disappointments j of small minds, but no one doubted that | there would ever be one faithful man in | the Senate —Edgar Cowan, of Pcnnsylva ! nia. Such were his antecedents —such his pledges—such the circumstances of his election, llow faithless lie has been, let his record tell. With Saulisbury and I'owell and Davis, and every open, inso-r lent sympashiser with treason, he votes habitually from day today, and shames his loyal friends and degrades his great State by his perfidy. When will Penn sylvania learn to value and cherish States men, rather than political adventurers?— Frunklin lirjiost fori/. | CONFIDENCE IN GEN. GRANT. —-'The more wo view this campaign," remarks ! the Philadelphia Press, "the m#rc thor- I oughly we are convinced of the justice of our faith in Grant; and when we read his assurance to the President, as reported in the newspapers, that lie will take Rich mond, we do not regard it as an evidence of vanity or presumption, but the confi dent calculation of a man who has exam ined the work before him, —a master-rafts | man who finds it within his power. We should like him to do it in our way and time. We should be delighted if he could do it dramatically, and take Richmond as he took Vicksburg, on the forth of July, i But still we care little for days and dates. I or the pomp and splendor of the event, Iso that it i.-» finally accomplished. We ! cherish this opinion the more earnestly because we believe that when Richmond tails the rebellion will be at an end. The | rebels seem to desire this, for they make I Richmond,as it were, the focus of their j power, by drawing around that city all their power, by drawing around that city : all their strength and substance. It is the I heart of the Confederacy, and when we | take it we shall have taken life itself from j the body of this monstrous rebellion." His power of generalship, says the N. Y. Times, which has evidently been more and more developed through Grant's whole career, is one great source of confidence that this difficult campaign will be brought ito a victorious conclusion. If Gen. Grant | finds the lines of the Chickahominy too j strong'for assult, as is intimated by our correspondent, he will undoubtedly attack ! Richmond by some other line, and thus | draw Lee from his intrenchments. llis campaign against Vicksburg showed how fertile in resources was his mind, and we must not be surprised if various means of attacking Lee, with varying success, are attempted, before the final and successful one. A just cause, a most brave and en during army, and a general of high mili tary skill and great tenacity of purpose — with these in view, we can afford to wait calmly for the future. JBraT' There is a tree near the present quarters of iShcrman's army, called the '•fatal tree." Eight men were shot, one after another, as soon as they advanced to the fatal tree to take a secure position be hind its huge trunk. .Seven men wero shot, when a board was placed therewith the word " Dangerous' 1 chalked upon it. The rebels shot the guide-board into frag ments. and asergerut unsuspectingly took his place behind the tree. In less than five minutes two minnio balls pierced the sergeant's body, and he fell the eighth martyr beneath the shadow of the tree of death. t&~ A down east editor says that mod esty is a quality that highly adorns a wo man. but ruins a man One Year Ago. One year Pittsburgh was menaced by an overwhelming rebel farce, which had crossed the State b< rler, threaten in}:; to reduce to ashes the cities of the North. Our city, as a point of great value to the government, by reason of its manufactories, was particularly threaten ed. At the call of danger, our citizens prepared for defense, and an extensive range of fortifications will long remain to testify their zeal and labors. The state of things then—the rebels aggressive, confident, defiant; the Army of the Po tomac outflanked, uncertain and underu cloud—i 3so fresh in the recollection of the reader that there is no necessity for recalling it. It is only to institute tho contrast between it and the present situa tion. The rebels are nowhere now on the aggressive, but everywhere on the defen sive. They nowhere propose or under take to advance, but are compelled to re treat everywhere. They hold, neither nominally nor really, one-half the territo ry they then did; and what they do hold is by a tenure so frail that it is liable to be lost almost any day. On the contrary, nearly the whole of the great, reach of country from Pennsyl vania to Georgia is now held by tho Union forces. Through tho whole extent of the great valley from Stanton to Atlanta, runs a line of railway of vast importance to the rebels. For the first time in the war, this and all their principal lines of com munication are threatened. Running from tho interior of the circumference to the center, these lines have hitherto been secure from menace, and have constituted the main reliance of the rebellion. To day there is not a railroad running to or from Richmond that is not cut. This changes the whole aspect of the case. It is the grand new fact in the situation.— It is the fruit of the present campaigu , it is what Grant has been steadily aim ing to.accomplish, and what l.ce has been striving to prevent. It is not solely in the territory wc liavo wrested from the rebels, or in the advan tages of the position we occupy, that wo find the results of the year. We have found a leader, whom not only our armies but the nation has learned to trust, and the rebels to fear. Our armies arc stron ger now than they ever were, and the de termination of tho North to put down the rebellion is still strong. Tho rebels con fessedly. have gone to tho extent of their resources. They own that beaten now, they will be beaten finally. Viewed from whatever standpoint vu choose, the situ ation to-day, compared with what is was one year ago, is not only full of encour agement, but in its very worst features proof that tho North has only to be faithful to itsell to win at an early day a complete victory and a per manent peace.— l'ilts. Com. THE BUSINESS OF THK HOUR. —To | keep tho army efficient and prevent the families of the absent from suffering ought, says the N. Y Post, to be the sole busi ness of the whole country for the next ninety days. Those who remain at home and do business should give their surplus earnings to the support of soldiers' faml i lies. In the country every farmer should see that some soldiers' wile children j gets food from him; in the city no citizen I should sleep till he has plcged himself to I give a weekly sum directly to the family |of an absent soldier. Many are already I doing this, and have done it for many months past. But it is now the duty of | every man who remains at home; it is the ! only condition on which he can lionora j blystay at home. Hread and.soldiers are I what we need now —hut for a short space |of time—in order to restore peace, The ! great time of trial has come, and if the men who stay at home do their duty- tho armies can be kept full without distress to families, and the war can be ended without delay. THK OBLIGATIONS OF PATRIOTISM. — There arc thousands who, though exempt from military duty, are nevertheless un der the obligations of patriotism to assist in keeping up our armies. A large poi tion of this class will, on examination, be found abundantly able to place each a man in the ranks. This they should do, in addition to whatever else they may have done, or may propose to do. W hat nobler or more genuine evidence of 'patriotism can there be, thafl the certificate that you haved placed asoldier in the ranks in tho hour of the country's great need. The Government would do well to give n tico that it will keep a roll of honor, whereon any man uiay have his name inscribed on proof that, being cxeni| t himself, he has placed an accepted sold erin the ta-ks. The record would bd an enduring honor to the descendants of those whose names it bore. There is on lack either of will or moucy. All that is wanting is the ap plication of the means to give it practical directions. Shall wc not have a move ment lice, having for its object the ac knowledgment of the obligations of pat riotism resting 011 all who, though not lia ble to military duty, are ready, according to their mean , to contribute to place meD in the ranks? WASHINGTON, June 28—4 P.M. — Maj. Grit. Die —The following dispatch has just been received from Gen. Hun ter : ••I have the honor to report that our expedition has been extremely success ful in inflicting great injury upon the enemy, and was victorious in every en gagement. Running short of ammuni tion. and finding it impossible to colleol supplies while in the presence of an en-> euiy believed it to be superior to our force in numbers and which was constantly re ceiving reinforcements from Richmond! and other points, I deemed it best to. withdraw, and have succeeded in doing so without serious loss, to this point where we met with abundant supplies of food. A detailed report of our operations will bo forwarded immediately. Tho command is in excellent heart and health, and will be ready, after a few days' rest, for ser vcce in any direction." Nothing later than my telegram of this morning has been received from Gen. Grant or Gen. Sherman. EDWIN M. STANTON, Secretary of war. 1)cg~ If you would find a great many faults, bo on the lookout. If yon would fiud them in still greater abundance, b» on the look-in
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